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TEN-T corridors : stairway to heaven or highway to hell?

Goldmann, Kathrin; Wessel, Jan - 2019

The European Union coordinates and co-finances supra-national transport infrastructure investments in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) which consist of road, rail, airport, and port infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to quantify the direct and indirect...

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Project evaluation of transportation projects : an application of financial computable general equilibrium model

Kim, Euijune; Hewings, Geoffrey; Amir, Hidayat - 2015 - Draft

We develop a Financial Computable General Equilibrium Model (FCGE) model that can analyse the economic impacts of the infrastructure investment projects and their financing options on growth and distribution in Indonesia economy. It is possible to estimate growth and distributional effects of...

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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration

Flueckiger, Matthias - 2019

We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...

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Information Super-Railway? Transportation Infrastructure and Information Production in Capital Markets

Chen, Kejing; Chi, J. Daniel; Guo, Wenqi - 2021

When large numbers of people are enabled to travel rapidly around the country, will it affect information production in capital markets? We study a government-directed buildout of high-speed rails (HSR) and find that after being connected to the HSR network, firms experience increased...

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Management Strategies for Conservation of Natural Resources in Agriculture

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2013

natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law … management and strategies in agriculture including: specification of specific “managerial needs” and spectrum of feasible … agriculture during post-communist transformation and EU integration (institutional, market, private, and public), and evaluates …

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Modeling the Relationship between Government Policy, Economic Growth, and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Andersen, Lykke Eg - 2008

This paper develops a theoretical as well as an empirical model of deforestation and economic development in a tropical forest economy. The empirical model is estimated using panel data for 316 municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon during the period 1970-1985. The effects of controversial...

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Improving Africa's roads : modelling infrastructure investment and its effect on sectoral production behaviour

Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - In: Development policy review 32 (2014) 3, pp. 327-353

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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...

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European integration and domestic regions: a numerical simulation analysis

Melchior, Arne (contributor) - 2009

Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalisation scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...

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Trade and development in a labor surplus economy

Barbier, Edward; Rauscher, Michael - 2005

This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...

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